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Aspect and reference time / Olga Borik.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Borik, Olga, 1972-
- Series:
- Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; 13.
- Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; 13
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Russian language--Aspect.
- Russian language.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 226 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Investigating the temporal structure of language, this text deals with issues in the understanding of tense and aspect proposes a new approach to the main problems in the area, and seeks to establish the universal semantic properties of two important and contentious aspectual categories, perfectivity and imperfectivity.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Main theories of aspect (1) : the telicity approach
- Perfectivity in Russian in terms of telicity : testing the hypothesis
- Main theories of aspect (2) : the point of view approach
- Reference time
- Russian aspect in terms of reference time.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-221) and index.
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-87020-6
- 0-19-151624-4
- 1-4294-7110-7
- OCLC:
- 609831002
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